SSD detected in BIOS but not in windows 7 installer?

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 01:32

please help

danewesley · 13 Jun 2012 at 01:36

Could be a bad install disk/usb stick, it happened to me the other day, a simple clear cmos worked in the end.

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 01:38

danewesley said:
Could be a bad install disk/usb stick, it happened to me the other day, a simple clear cmos worked in the end.

How does one clear the cmos? My hardware,

Corsair Carbide 500R White Case
Corsair AX 650W
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
Intel Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz
Corsair H80
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
Crucial 128GB M4 SSD
Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2GB GDDR5

wazza300 · 13 Jun 2012 at 01:54

if the bios can see the hdd i doubt a cmos clear would cure it? you have a spare pc to plug hdd into? try formatting the hdd in ntfs,windows disk might see the drive then?

danewesley · 13 Jun 2012 at 02:26

you could go into diskpart and format the hdd that way, i also had to do this with my problem, but it might also be if your bios is set to ahci and missing a driver, change back to ide and try that.

danewesley · 13 Jun 2012 at 02:27

to clear cmos there will either be a dedicated button on the board, or there will be three jumper pins on the board, with it written next to them, two pins will be covered, if you look in your motherboard manual it will tell you how to do it.

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:25

wazza300 said:
if the bios can see the hdd i doubt a cmos clear would cure it? you have a spare pc to plug hdd into? try formatting the hdd in ntfs,windows disk might see the drive then?

i don't

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:27

danewesley said:
you could go into diskpart and format the hdd that way, i also had to do this with my problem, but it might also be if your bios is set to ahci and missing a driver, change back to ide and try that.

I tried changing ahci, raid and ide no luck and sata II port i am going insane :eek:

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:28

danewesley said:
to clear cmos there will either be a dedicated button on the board, or there will be three jumper pins on the board, with it written next to them, two pins will be covered, if you look in your motherboard manual it will tell you how to do it.

yeah it has a cmos button but all it does is reset bios since theres nothing to change it just restarts pc really and made no difference :mad:

ishoeyi · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:40

does your mb has a special raid controller may be windows 7 doesnt have the driver for.

try install the raid controller driver once you reach the select hdd screen

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:45

ishoeyi said:
does your mb has a special raid controller may be windows 7 doesnt have the driver for.

try install the raid controller driver once you reach the select hdd screen

sorry if this is a noob question but where can i find this driver and the mobo Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H

danewesley · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:52

the driver will be on the cd that came with the mobo, or you can download the latest from the gigabyte website, turn your computer off when you clear cmos

danewesley · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:54

did you try both ide and ahci modes in the bios?

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 03:58

danewesley said:
the driver will be on the cd that came with the mobo, or you can download the latest from the gigabyte website, turn your computer off when you clear cmos

so when i get to the stage where windows says it cant detect my drive put in disk that came with mobo?

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 04:05

danewesley said:
did you try both ide and ahci modes in the bios?

i think so but i am tired and will try all possible ways again tomorrow and take note of each to be sure

Hagar · 13 Jun 2012 at 10:05

Mode should not make a difference.

Try different sata ports and different cables.

Download a new iso for windows.

marmalade · 13 Jun 2012 at 11:24

nkata said:
Mode should not make a difference.

Try different sata ports and different cables.

Download a new iso for windows.

No excuse for this board not recognizing this SSD and certainly not the OS. Naturally make sure that you have windows 7 with SP1

wazza300 · 13 Jun 2012 at 11:45

what ports are you connecting the hdd to? using very latest motherboard bios?

bees · 13 Jun 2012 at 13:30

Klitschk0 said:
please help

did you install using a disc or usb flash drive? if usb flash drive, make sure you plug it in to usb 2.0 not usb 3.0

Klitschk0 · 13 Jun 2012 at 16:05

bees said:
did you install using a disc or usb flash drive? if usb flash drive, make sure you plug it in to usb 2.0 not usb 3.0

that may be a problem as i only have usb 3.0 i think haha